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- Title
Conservation of temperate forest birds in Chile: implications from the study of an isolated forest relict .
- Authors
Reid, Sharon; Cornelius, Cintia; Barbosa, Olga Barbosa; Meynard, Christine; Silva-García, Celeste; Marquet, Pablo A.
- Abstract
Characterizes the bird assemblage of an isolated relict temperate rainforest (Santa Ines) in terms of its structure, composition and dynamics. Assessment of the consequences of long-term isolation and forest area reduction for temperate bird species; Conduction of bird surveys in a forest fragment and the surrounding scrub matrix between April 1999 and October 2000 on a seasonal basis; Distinguishment within the forest fragment of two microhabitat types: creeks and areas far from creeks; Recording of a total of 36 species in the study site, of which 21 were inside the relict forest; Finding that highest bird abundance and richness were recorded during winter and spring, and these were always higher in creek plots rather than slope plots; Indication by comparisons between this assemblage and those distributed in the continuous temperate forest that this bird assemblage shares more similarities, with regard to bird species composition, to southern temperate forest localities and to other relict forests, than to nearer scrub habitats; Eight species, endemic to temperate forests in southern South America, missing from our system; Indication that these eight endemic species should be of great conservation concern and will likely be the ones that will go extinct first if the fragmentation of the temperate forest continues.
- Subjects
SOUTH America; FOREST birds; BIRDS; FOREST animals; SPECIES distribution; SPECIES diversity; ENDANGERED species; NATURE conservation; FORESTS &; forestry; RAIN forest animals; RAIN forests
- Publication
Biodiversity & Conservation, 2002, Vol 11, Issue 11, p1975
- ISSN
0960-3115
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1020838610330